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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

UK's ITV Picks Up Season 3 Of The Hit Nickelodeon Comedy Series "Victorious" And Season Three Of The Popular Nickelodeon Sitcom "Big Time Rush"

The show, produced by Mammoth Screen, is scripted by Tom Stoppard, based on Ford Madox Ford's novels. It is co-produced by HBO and France's Arte.

ProSiebenSat.1 has taken German rights to the adaptation of William Boyd's spy novel "Restless." The WWII drama centers on a young Russian recruited to infiltrate the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.

Starring Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell and Michelle Dockery, it was penned by Boyd, helmed by Edward Hall and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones of Endor Prods.

The BBC and the Sundance Channel greenlit the show, which is repped by Red Arrow Intl.

ITV Studios has secured a raft of deals for British drama skeins "Mr Selfridge," "Falcon" and "Endeavour."

The detective drama was previously picked up by WGBH in the U.S., Seven Network in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, Belgian pubcaster VRT and the Netherlands' NPO. It is a Mammoth Screen production.

Among other deals at Mipcom, the U.K.'s Channel 4 commissioned cookery series "Simon Hopkinson Cooks," which is produced by Ricochet, and "16 Kids and Counting," looking at the lives of Britain's biggest families, produced by Lion Television. It also commissioned a docu about TV chef Fanny Cradock, "Fanny and Friends," produced by Boundless/Talkback.

U.K. broadcaster ITV has nabbed season one and two of Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." The skein will simulcast on ITV1 and CITV, starting in spring.